Since September 2000

6617 Palestinians
1079 Israelis

6 - 1 looks like a bit more than ""not even a hundred Don"".

Since 2004

3414 Palestinians
259 Israelis

These are deaths of both military and civilians killed by members of the opposing nationality. Premature explosions, friendly fire, or suicide bombers. Nor does it include Palestinians who dted as a result of inability to reach medical care, due to Israeli road closures, curfews and border closures.

Source: B'Tselem, The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. (Visit their statistics page, last updated August 31, 2012.)

Add to the figures 137 Palestinians killed in seven days since the publication, without one single Israeli death.

They are getting significantly less careful as time goes on, wouldn't you say.

Chilling figures indeed!

* The Palestinian people do not have a military, so the usual classification of civilian is not being used. Instead B'Tselem provides data on the number of Palestinians who did not participate in hostilities, a significantly more stringent qualification than the one used to identify Israeli civilians. We do not know how many of the Israelis listed as civilians participated in the hostilities. Many settlers who illegally have taken over parts of the West Bank (and used to live in parts of the Gaza Strip) are heavily armed and there have been numerous reports of their brutal attacks on their Palestinian neighbors.

Don T.